Boosting Female Labor Participation Rates Key to Offsetting Asia’s Deteriorating Demographics: New MasterCard Report. Latest MasterCard Report Explores Correlation between Education and Labor Force Participation Rates for Women in Asia Tweet this: Boosting female labor participation rates key to offsetting #Asia’s declining demographics: New #MasterCard Report Singapore, 23 September 2013 – A new insights report by MasterCard highlights that the economic growth of a market is closely tied with the opportunity offered to half its population – women – and besides access to education, more needs to be done in order to achieve equality and empowerment for this segment.
The report, authored by Dr. Simon Ogus, Chief Executive Officer, DSG Asia Limited, is titled ‘Women Power and Economic Growth in Asia’ and examines the contribution to economic growth made by women through a detailed analysis of women’s labor force participation in the key economies of East, Southeast and South Asia. Www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2013/sdn1310.pdf. Ro-bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_212030.pdf. Stagnating women's labour force participation asia. What explains the stagnation of female labour force participation in urban India? Over the past two decades, urban India has experienced expansion in women’s education, fertility decline and growth in white-collared jobs.
Then why is it that female labour force participation has stagnated at around 18% since the 1980s? This column seeks to answer this question by exploring demand and supply side factors that influence female labour force participation. India’s economy has grown fast over the past two decades, with the services sector accounting for a large share of growth (Bosworth and Collins 2008; Shastry 2012). India has also experienced a sizable fertility decline, a rapid education expansion and a decline in the education gender gap, while the labour market returns to education increased (Kijima 2006; Pieters 2010). Against this background, it is puzzling to see that the reported female labour force participation rate in urban India has stagnated at around 18% since the 1980s (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Www.uvm.edu/~sseguino/pdf/IDG.pdf. Inequality, Development, and Growth – Edited by Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers and Stephanie Seguino - Zin - 2012 - Asian-Pacific Economic Literature. Stephanie Seguino at IDEAS. This is information that was supplied by Stephanie Seguino in registering through RePEc.
If you are Stephanie Seguino , you may change this information at the RePEc Author Service. Or if you are not registered and would like to be listed as well, register at the RePEc Author Service. When you register or update your RePEc registration, you may identify the papers and articles you have authored. Personal Details First Name: Stephanie Middle Name: Last Name: Seguino Suffix: RePEc Short-ID: pse117 Email: stephanie.seguino@uvm.eduHomepage: Postal Address: University of Vermont Old Mill 340 Department of Economics Burlington, VT 05405 USA Phone: 802.656.0187 Affiliation Department of EconomicsUniversity of Vermont. Www.oecd.org/social/labour/34562935. Www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/RevisedLIMpaper.PDF. Www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2012/economics-wp321-inclusive-growth-gender-inequality.pdf. Asia Losing $89 Billion a Year Failing to Recognize Women: Jobs. At a booth in one of Manila’s biggest malls, 22-year-old Vanessa Tinitigan sells butter lip gloss from the U.S. and hair extensions from South Korea, part of a business she began at 16 that has made her the family’s main breadwinner.
The self-taught entrepreneur, who also wholesales and exports fashion products, started her company, Purpektion Shop, as a schoolgirl with no formal financial education or access to funds. She now hires part-time workers to run stalls at bazaars and events. “I struggled, nobody taught me,” said Tinitigan, who is also pursuing a degree in advertising. “Most people don’t know how to start a business and then, when the problems come, they don’t know how to fix it. Many entrepreneurs who started the same time I did are now bankrupt.” Stalled Participation By 2020, there will be about 865 million women worldwide who aren’t contributing as much to the economy as they could, according to analysts at New York City-based management consultant Booz & Co. From Abenomics to Womenomics: Working Women and Japan’s Economic Revival. Top Afghan policewoman killed months after predecessor's assassination. Lieutenant Nigara was a well-respected officer whose work went far beyond the female body searches that fill the days of many policewomen.
But today, Nigara, the top policewoman in Helmand province, died from her wounds after being shot twice on her way to work, just three months after her predecessor was assassinated in the same way by attackers who have never been identified. The death was the latest in a campaign of assassinations, intimidation, assaults and kidnappings of prominent women around Afghanistan that has raised fears that the modest gains made by women in the last decade will be wiped out as western troops head home.
Nigara had been an officer for decades, signing up in the early 1990s when the Soviet-backed government ruled Afghanistan. Forced home briefly by the Taliban, she returned from her temporary retirement to join male forces on daring raids to arrest fighters. Only 1% of police in Afghanistan are female, Oxfam said in a recent report. Carrie Lam: How to Work Women into Hong Kong's Workforce. Speaker: Culture shift needed for HK to see effective gender equality MUMBAI, March 16, 2012 — Women have been a growing force in Hong Kong workplaces, but the progress has been slower than expected.
Carrie Lam, Secretary for Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, points to a longstanding patriarchal culture as the root of the problem. In a private event with distinguished women leaders across all sectors, Lam discussed the slow but steady progress of women in the Hong Kong workforce at the Asia Society India Center. This event was co-hosted by Minal Bajaj, Honorary Director of the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, and is part of Asia Society India Centre’s Women of Asia series, which promotes the collaboration and leadership of accomplished women through a range of informative and network-building forums. The "ambition gap" between men and women is also a major issue at the root of the gender-gap problem, according to Lam. Sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Gender-inequality-costs-Asia-47-billion-annually-CSMonitor.pdf.
Newsroom.mastercard.com/asia-pacific/files/2013/09/MasterCard-Insights-Report-Women-Power-and-Economic-Growth-in-Asia.pdf. Boosting Female Labor Participation Rates Key to Offsetting Asia’s Deteriorating Demographics: New MasterCard Report. Latest MasterCard Report Explores Correlation between Education and Labor Force Participation Rates for Women in Asia Tweet this: Boosting female labor participation rates key to offsetting #Asia’s declining demographics: New #MasterCard Report Singapore, 23 September 2013 – A new insights report by MasterCard highlights that the economic growth of a market is closely tied with the opportunity offered to half its population – women – and besides access to education, more needs to be done in order to achieve equality and empowerment for this segment.
The report, authored by Dr. Simon Ogus, Chief Executive Officer, DSG Asia Limited, is titled ‘Women Power and Economic Growth in Asia’ and examines the contribution to economic growth made by women through a detailed analysis of women’s labor force participation in the key economies of East, Southeast and South Asia. Welcome to FICCI.COM.
‘Sexual harassment at work place high’ Seventeen per cent of working women in India claim that they have experienced sexual harassment at workplace.
This high incidence of sexual harassment, both in the organised and the unorganised sectors, was revealed in an opinion poll titled ‘Sexual Harassment at Workplaces in India 2011-2012” released by Oxfam India. The survey for which women were interviewed in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmadabad, Lucknow and Durgapur was jointly conducted by Oxfam India and Social and Rural Research Institute. Most women claimed to have faced incidents that were non-physical, according to the survey. “Sixty-six of the 400 respondents reported to have faced a cumulative of 121 incidents of sexual harassment, 102 of 121 incidents reported to be non-physical, whereas the remaining 19 incidents were physical in nature,’’ indicated the survey.
Women Long to Work in Peace. Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society, Economy & Trade, Featured, Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Violence, Headlines, Labour, Projects, Regional Categories, TerraViva Europe, Women & Economy The well known poetess Sugathakumari speaks at a meeting about sexual violence against women in Thiruvananthapuram.
Credit: K.S. Harikrishnan/IPS - Shaken by the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in the national capital New Delhi last December, the female workforce in India is calling for more concrete measures for the protection of female employees from both physical and non-physical attacks. Although the Union Government has passed a bill in Parliament to protect female employees from sexual harassment in the workplace, women are demanding long-term measures to implement the law and punish the guilty. According to the Indian constitution, sexual harassment infringes on women’s fundamental right to gender equality under Article 14 and her right to live with dignity under Article 21. Women in the workforce: Female power. C Dunlop Correction to this article THE economic empowerment of women across the rich world is one of the most remarkable revolutions of the past 50 years.
It is remarkable because of the extent of the change: millions of people who were once dependent on men have taken control of their own economic fates. It is remarkable also because it has produced so little friction: a change that affects the most intimate aspects of people's identities has been widely welcomed by men as well as women. Dramatic social change seldom takes such a benign form. Yet even benign change can come with a sting in its tail. Www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2011/women-labor-markets.pdf. Www.pide.org.pk/psde/25/pdf/AGM28/Nooreen Mujahid and Naeem uz Zafar.pdf. U shaped curve labour force participation asia. Sites/default/files/docs/publications/clara-wp04.pdf. Eprints.lse.ac.uk/38367/1/ARCWP40-BhallaKaur. Off the Record: Reconstructing Women's Labor Force Participation in the European Past.
Author Info Jane HumphriesCarmen Sarasa Abstract Conventional histories of women's labor force participation in Europe conceptualize the trends in terms of a U-shaped pattern. This contribution draws on historical research to challenge such an account. First, it demonstrates that the trough in participation is in part statistically manufactured by uncritical reliance on official sources that systematically undercount women workers.
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